Quick set-up: In June of last year, a started making a game called 'Shoot-a Story', which is, to put it simply, a Space Invaders-esque game where you shoot at classic literature. Oh, and everything in made out of text. And you can destroy the menus. Last September, I wrote about how development had gone up until this point , expecting development of the game to be over. Now, seven months on, I...
Quick set-up: In June, a started making a game called 'Shoot-a Story', which is, to put it simply, a Space Invaders-esque game where you shoot at classic literature. Oh, and everything in made out of text. And you can destroy the menus. I started out doing short update blogs, which can be found on Tumblr , but very quickly I stopped doing the posts and instead just kept working on the game. Thi...
This is an idiot's guide to Steam Greenlight, to hopefully answer some of the commonly asked questions about the service and maybe present it to people who may have not heard of it previously. What the hell is Steam Greenlight? Put simply, it's a service for people to try and get games onto Steam. Users of Steam then vote for games they like, and if the game gets enough votes it might get onto...
Developer: Broken Rules Website: http://www.andyetitmoves.net From: Humble Bundle 3 Platform: Wii, PC (Steam, Desura) Price: £6.99 (Desura) It's been a while, but at last the battling of backlogs moves on. And Yet It Moves was released on PC in the April of 2009, and on the Wii in the August of 2010. In the summer of 2011, it was included in the 3rd Humble Bundle, the first bundle that I bought...
Developer: PomPom Games Website: http://pompomgames.com/alienzombiemegadeath.htm From: The April Fools Bundle, Indie Royale (as of writing, it's still going! ) Platform: PS3, PC (Steam) Price: £3.99 (Steam) This may be from the April Fools Bundle, but believe me when I tell you that this game ACTUALLY exists. There are aliens. They are zombies. There is death. It is mega. The game has a very un...
Last weekend, an event took place called 'What Would Molydeux?' , a gamejam where people around the world attempted to create games based on the tweets of one Peter Molydeux , a satire of Peter Molyneux in 72 hours. I've deiceded to see what the end products are like. As such, I've had pick random numbers, and these were the 3 I got. So welcome to What Would Molydeux roulette, or 'Molydeuxlette...
Developer: NinjaBee Website: http://www.ninjabee.com/a-kingdom-for-keflings-pc/ From: The NInja Lightening Pack, Indie Royale Platform: XBox 360, PC (Desura, Gamersgate) Price: £13.99 (Desura), 800MSP (XBox) A Kingdom for Keflings was originally released on the XBox 360 in 2008, with the PC release coming 2 years later minus XBox pad support, which is a little strange, to say the least. The aim...
Firstly, a quick introduction to this new feature from me. Ever since my first PC indie bundle, the 3rd Humble Bundle, I have bought pretty much every major Humble Bundle and Indie Royale bundle, as well as one Indie Gala bundle. How much of them have I played? Well... not a lot, if I'm honest. And thus the 'Indie Bundle Backlog Battle' was born. I am going to go through every single bundle gam...
Over the past few years the rise of games released by independent developers has been clear to see on the PC and mobile platforms, thanks to the likes of Steam and the iOS platform. However, in the background, there is the forgotten step-child of indie games; welcome to XBox Live Indie Games, coming to a 360 near you now! Unless you live in Ireland. Or Australia. Or most of the world, pretty mu...